This is a report on joint work with Ana Caraiani, Matthew Emerton, Toby Gee, David Geraghty, and Vytautas Paskunas. We will explain some ideas around the global construction of new representation-theoretic objects called "patched modules" by a variant of the Taylor-Wiles-Kisin method. They are in many ways better suited than p-adically completed cohomology for a global attempt to understand the p-adic local Langlands correspondence. As an application, we obtain new cases of the Breuil-Schneider conjecture.